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Say it ain’t so, Ochocinco
The other big deal of the day saw outspoken wide receiver Chad Ochocinco head from Cincinnati to New England for two undisclosed draft picks.
Well that’s going to make it a lot harder to like the dude. Dammit.
Hey Chad Ochocinco, do you know what your new quarterback looks like on a waterslide?
Mark Sanchez willing to be slightly less rich to become significantly more famous, remain equally handsome
Whatever we need to do to win, it’s on.
– Mark Sanchez.
Sanchez told the Jets he is willing to restructure his contract to help the team sign more free agents. By boat phone, presumably.
Jets might get the second-best cornerback in the league because he wants to be an actor
If you haven’t heard, the NFL offseason is ON! NFL Offseason Free Agent Frenzy 2K11, presented by Dodge.
The league’s hype machine is so overwhelming that I usually avoid most football talk until actual football starts, but the thought of Nnamdi Asomugha lined up across the field from Darrelle Revis is tantalizing, even in July with real baseball games happening. I don’t know if I buy that it will happen for love of theater and not love of money, but then I don’t know the man.
Mike Salfino has been on this one for a while.
What does that defense look like? It’s almost hard to conceive, and I’m so long out of the football mindset that I probably need to think on it some more. It’d be a sight to behold, I imagine. You still need someone to handle the middle of the field, though.
What I was talking about
Devon passes along this Deadspin compilation of “four-to-six jockish-looking dudes in suits just laughing their asses off.”
Hope for the Sanchize?
Once again, Sanchez backers only have to look to Eli for hope. In 2005, Manning had 17.1% poor throws. The average is about 15% most years, 14.8% last year. But in 2010, Manning’s rate dropped to 13%, sixth lowest where lower is obviously better. Sanchez dropped from 19.2 to 18.2% last year. If Manning tightened things up as he got older and more experienced to the point where his accuracy now grades above average, why can’t Sanchez?
Good stuff from Salfino. I’d never seen poor-throw percentage tracked before.
Tom Brady into all sorts of freaky stuff
Here is Tom Brady smiling at a dog while flexing his biceps with a camera attached to his groin:
Via Barstool Sports, via Greg.
Well that’s random
Don Maynard may have picked up a thing or two about trash talking from Rex Ryan.
After hearing the current Jets head coach call Darrrelle Revis the greatest player in team history, the wide receiver told ESPN.com that he and Joe Namath would have done just fine, thanks, against the cornerback.
“Oh, yeah,” Maynard said. “It doesn’t matter if it was him or anyone else. I had a guy named Namath throwing me the ball. If he goes left, I go right. If he goes right, I go left — the ball would be there. And I’ve never been caught from behind. That’s why my book is called, ‘You Can’t Catch Sunshine.’ (Revis) is like Deion Sanders. I would’ve loved to have played against those guys.”
Well that’s random.
Maybe if Don Maynard came up in the same generation as Revis, with access to all the same training methods and everything, this might be worth debating. But if you’re talking about picking up the Don Maynard that led the NFL in receiving yards in 1967, putting him in a time machine, suiting him up and getting him on the field to square off with Revis today, c’mon. No way.
Granted, I never saw Maynard play. I’m just going to go ahead and assume. Revis is almost unspeakably awesome, even for a modern NFL player.
Can’t blame Maynard for jawing though. Turns out Hall of Famers develop some pretty healthy egos.
Tedquarters 